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Bug 34249 - ntpdate should be a standalone application as well
Summary: ntpdate should be a standalone application as well
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: SpanKY
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: 43688 78831 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2003-11-24 03:43 UTC by David Thorarinsson
Modified: 2005-01-20 10:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description David Thorarinsson 2003-11-24 03:43:30 UTC
In order to be able to synchronise the time on a machine with an NTP server,
ntpdate must be used. To get this application you need the "ntp" package which
includes everything that has to do with ntp which is a bit overkill if NTP only
synchronisation is needed. Why not make a separate package called "ntpdate"
which only includes this application? This is something that is already done in
Debian.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-24 06:19:35 UTC
there was a discussion about a 'server' use flag some time ago on -dev, not sure how it ended
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-11-24 08:26:14 UTC
cant/wont be done at this stage
Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-25 07:33:07 UTC
This doesn't make sense. From the ntpdate man page:

Disclaimer:  The  functionality  of  this program is now available in the ntpd program. See the -q  command line option in the ntpd  - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon page. After a suitable period of mourning,  the  ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution
Comment 4 David Thorarinsson 2003-11-25 22:34:27 UTC
Just to summarise: I did check into this after reading Carlo's comment. The plan is to remove ntpdate from ntp because of various reasons. The functionality provided by ntpdate will be provided by "ntpd -q". See this page for further information:

http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config.htm

Maybe we should find a small ntp client app that does the job of correcting time on workstations?
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-11-29 21:33:40 UTC
forgot ntpdate was deprecated ...
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-11-29 21:33:52 UTC
thus no soup for you
Comment 7 Steven Wagner 2004-03-04 16:07:58 UTC
*** Bug 43688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Steven Wagner 2004-03-04 16:36:57 UTC
how come we can't include ntpd on the livecd? 300k.  Too big?  Lets include ntpdate and and forget about that it is depreciated.  Without either, we are just sacrificing functionality.  
Comment 9 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-20 10:18:11 UTC
*** Bug 78831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***